Whereas the Radio City show focused on Ocean Rain in its entirety, Irving Plaza will focus on their first TWO LPs, Crocodiles & Heaven Up Here, in their entirety, plus a selection of "hits". Tickets for the NYC show are on sale in regular and VIP varieties, which include "front of the line access, a poster, and access to a designated area of the balcony". All dates below.

In related news, Kelley Stoltz was involved in a fascinating project by Sonny Smith:

Last year, local songwriter/cool guy Sonny Smith started an art project you may have heard a thing or two about: He invented 100 fake bands, wrote 100 different singles from each one (with an A side and B side!), and made art for those 100 singles.

But then, Smith and a bunch of friends began recording some of those songs... Collaborators on the project include: Ty Segall, Kelley Stoltz, the Sandwitches, Tim Cohen of the Fresh & Onlys, and others. -[SF Weekly]

Here's a bit more ridiculousity, as each single has its own post, band name, and bio (!) on the 100 Records site. I guess none of this would matter if the jams weren't interesting, but you can judge for yourself in the streaming song "I Wanna Do It" by Earth Girl Helen Brown below. The track comes from the new release Sonny Smith's 100 Records Volume 2: I Miss The Jams, out now on CD via Turn Up Records.

Comments (24)

Live Nation is out of control with all these little bs add on's/ front of the line, coat check et al. Assh*les.Making the concert experience lamer piece by piece. At a minimum they could have dj's that play decent music between bands. They play the stupidist shit between sets

Having seen the Bunnymen in 1981 and again last year at Brixton playing this same set I can tell you it was remarkable how little Mac's voice has changed. Choice of extra songs was a bit random though no idea why Lips Like Sugar was churned out.

Wow, really? Maybe it was studio tricks, but his voice sounds a lot different than it did on pretty much everything up through Mysterio. He can't really howl like he used to.

And they played Lips Like Sugar because they ALWAYS play Lips Like Sugar. I've seen them 7 or 8 times in the last 15 years, and the only time they didn't play it was when they were touring as Electrafixion. For half the people in the crowd at American shows, it's probably one of the only three songs they know.

I saw them in SF last year and thought Ian's voice was incredible....a bit smokier than in his youth, but still powerful and distinctly Echo. Not to mention, Will Sergeant is a remarkable guitarist to watch.

Kelley Stoltz opened for them out here and was perfect. Not sure why he doesn't get more attention....that guy just oozes well-written catchy music.

Although I'm sure this show will be so so, good for the band to play both albums in one night. Compared to other shit bands raping the fans (weezer) by making them come two separate nights... Buzzcocks killed it when they played at Irving last year!

Saw the show in Philly last night. I would have gone just to see the song Crocodiles...but to get the complete first two albums sealed the deal. The addition of "hits" meant to keep the general public happy was a bit odd. So you deal with Lips and get to hear.Killing Moon, Dancing Horses and Cutter. Well worth it.